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Geek Culture / the small drive bay. what can you put there?

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 07:45
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i forgot the size of it but its the small drive bay where they usually put cardreaders and floppy drives. My friend got rid of his old card reader so he is wondering what can he put into this bay instead. he already has 1 with a diskette drive and the other one is empetey. i cant think off the top of my head of anything that can be put there other than a cardreader or a fan controller. Maybe you guys have any ideas of what he can fill that bay with

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ShaunRW
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 08:02 Edited at: 5th Dec 2010 08:07
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I'd just put in more USB ports. Or maybe a LCD screen with a temperature display.


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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 09:04
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i also though of putting a harddrive in that bay as 5 of his normal HDDs are all filled up and if he decided to get an extra HDD that drive bay could be the last spot where he can put it. ill ask him later about what he wants but i seriosly dont like the idea of filling up a PC with tons of drives. it makes the computer unstable (i tried running 8 hdds before) his hdd configuration is just awful. he has 2 ATA and 3 SATA drives. ATA and SATA tend to conflict with each other but i gues so far he got lucky

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IanM
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 11:01
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The instability in your system was probably down to your power supply not having enough wattage to properly supply the hard drives.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 19:23
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Quote: "ATA and SATA tend to conflict with each other but i gues so far he got lucky"


No they don't, I've been running both in the same system since sata was available.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 5th Dec 2010 20:26
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Quote: "The instability in your system was probably down to your power supply not having enough wattage to properly supply the hard drives."

good point. as for sata/ata. i dont know maybe you got lucky or have a special motherboard because i always had problems with running 2 types at the same time

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Quote: "i always had problems with running 2 types at the same time"


Well your motherboard has to support it and you have to set the appropriate option in your bios. But yeah, it should cause no problem.

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